I hope this might help.

After reading Andy's last reply I did some searching (thanks Andy for
your nice reply to my last statement that I made which was wrong on my
part).I found that I was out of date on this info. I run TSM client
versions 3.1.08 and TSM 4.1.12, both of these clients continue to backup
data when a long file name is found, but I got confused because the
3.1.08 client did not handle a directory + filename longer then 259
characters, where with the version you are running and the Ver 4 client
I am running the directory  + filename length is as follows.. But you
must run with USEUNICODEFILENAMES YES, unless you have Mac volumes!!

The maximum length of the file name itself (not including the directory
in which it resides), is 255 characters.
The maximum length of the directory path in which the file resides (not
including the file itself) can not exceed 1,024 characters. The maximum
length of any component within a directory path can not exceed 255
characters "Component" refers to a part of a structure as delimited by
the backslash  \ character.
To illustrate: Given a path of the form x:\comp1\comp2\comp3\
Each component "compx" can not exceed 255 
255 characters in length. Likewise, "filename" can
not exceed 255 characters in length. In addition,
the "x:\comp1\comp2\comp3" can not exceed 1,024 these limits are not
supported.               

anthony

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Rob Schroeder [mailto:robs AT FAMOUSFOOTWEAR DOT COM] 
Sent:   Thursday, 15 November 2001 8:07 AM
To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject:             file name length error

Here is the error I am seeing in my TSM error log for a Win2000 client
running 4.1.3 to a Win2000 server running TSM server 4.1.4.1



11/14/2001 02:51:33 ANS1228E Sending of object
'\\ffdata01\d$\Data\IS\Projects\P2915002 Aldon  ACMS (Phase II)\p2915001
Software Configuration
Management - Acquire and Install Aldon\document\Java classes that didnt
parse\com\famousfootwear\systems\retail\forms\personal\boundary' failed
11/14/2001 02:51:35 ANS4018E Error processing '\\ffdata01\d$': file name
too long
11/14/2001 02:51:35 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'DATA01' failed.  Return
code = 4.

What is the maximum file length name that is supported in TSM?  Also,
according to the messages book,this file should get skipped and the
backup
should continue...however my
backup failed.

Has anyone seen this?


Rob Schroeder
Famous Footwear



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